Family/pg. 442: two or more people who consider themselves related by blood, marriage, or adoption.
The video showed how in Libby, Montana family is the number one priority. One of the men interviewed in the video, Les with asbestosis, showed a great example of this. Les was not born in Libby. His car broke down there, and after a while of staying there he met his future wife. They got married, had a family and stayed married. He saw how important family was, and he did not want any other families to be affected the way he and his family had been. Another man said he cries sometimes because he is angry that he has gotten sick and that his family has the possibility of getting sick too. He uses humor to try and not be so upset over everything that has happened. One woman stayed with her mom while she was sick and waiting to die. She also had trouble getting medication for another sick family member. Everyone in the video
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The men were the main bread winners and provided for the families. When asbestos-related diseases became more prevalent and the men had to stop working, this type of lifestyle started to change. Women started to have to take charge of more things outside of the household. This would have been hard, since most of these women probably got married during a time when getting a degree as a women was not very common a thing, so they probably had very few opportunities to get high salary paying jobs. The strong men, who were loggers, are no longer so strong. They can barely take out the trash let alone do a hard day’s labor. A lot of these men probably felt emasculated because the women who they were supposed to be taking care of were suddenly taking care of them instead. However, just because the men were unable to physically do strenuous things is not to say their role had been stripped away from them. Their stance in the community and in the home was still very much the head role.